Senior CRDT & Distributed AI Infrastructure Engineer

webAI; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) match

Health stipend

Continuing Education support

Function Health subscription

Free parking

Flexible Time Off

Parental leave

Life insurance

Job summary

webAI seeks Senior and Staff Engineers to build secure, distributed AI infrastructure. The role emphasizes CRDTs and decentralized networks with hands-on Rust work, spanning edge to cloud environments and enforcing data privacy.

You’ll influence architecture, security, and collaboration with MLOps and Security teams in a fast-paced setting. We focus on private, edge-first AI, with a flexible in-office setup and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Experience with CRDTs
• Experience with peer-to-peer or decentralized networking frameworks

Responsibilities

• Work in backend systems languages to design and implement advanced synchronization and networking systems that enable reliable AI operations across heterogeneous environments, from edge devices to cloud isolated systems, while upholding the highest standards of performance, reliability, and data privacy.
• Architect robust data synchronization frameworks using content addressable storage, Merkle trees, CRDTs
• Lead performance tuning, debugging, and optimization of distributed software under resource constrained and intermittent connectivity conditions.
• Ensure security first design through threat modeling, secure key management, and integration of cryptographic primitives and protocols.
• Collaborate with MLOps, Infrastructure, and Security teams to deploy and integrate AI components in restricted or air gapped systems.
• Contribute to cross functional architectural design discussions and documentation for internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain rigorous testing, observability, and validation practices to ensure system reliability and compliance readiness.
• Other areas touched on may include distributed hash tables, content identifiers, gossip protocols, DAGs, overlay networks, and NAT traversal
• Please note: Development will be done in Rust and you’ll be able to get up to speed on Rust while working with these systems if you haven’t worked in it

Skills

CRDTs

Peer-to-peer networking

Job description

webAI seeks Senior and Staff Engineers to build secure, distributed AI infrastructure. The role emphasizes CRDTs and decentralized networks with hands-on Rust work, spanning edge to cloud environments and enforcing data privacy.

You’ll influence architecture, security, and collaboration with MLOps and Security teams in a fast-paced setting. We focus on private, edge-first AI, with a flexible in-office setup and competitive compensation.